Archive for May, 2015

The price and punishment for a fighter caught failing a drug testing in California just skyrocketed. And in the process, fighters are also going to lose financial protections that were previously afforded to them in arbitration.

A six-year legal battle between Juanito Ibarra and former clients Tito Ortiz & Rampage Jackson has ended. However, there are numerous lessons for all Internet writers to learn from the defamation lawsuit.

California fighters & managers in contract disputes will no longer have access to free arbitration services with the state Athletic Commission. Plus: so much for confidential settlements. The Legislature reveals the price tag for settling two lawsuits.

Mark Hunt is known throughout the world for some of the beatings he has taken & dished out in heavyweight fights. The latest beating he endured, this time from Stipe Miocic, should put him into retirement.

Both the Association of Boxing Commissions and Golden Boy are throwing the legal kitchen sink at Al Haymon. However, neither party is accusing Haymon of racketeering despite alleging that he & his associates are supposedly involved in illegal business activity?

The Association of Boxing Commissions has petitioned the US Attorney General to investigate Al Haymon for alleged violations of the Muhammad Ali Act. Golden Boy has now sued Al Haymon over alleged violations of both the Sherman & Clayton Antitrust Acts.